Margaret Ophelia Smith

Notes:

Shown in John B. Boddie's SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA FAMILIES, Volume 1, as a daughter of Dr. Charles James Smith and Annie Adeline Tomlinson. Dr. Smith attended medical school in Lexington, KY and moved to Mississippi, then to Texas where he practiced medicine unitl his death at the advanced age of eighty five. The Smith's children were Eliza Jane, m. William CROUCH, Cordelia m. Rufus PRICE; Addison; Conway; m. Libby Shays; Margaret Opehelia, m. A P Cartwright; Charles Figures, and John Smith, Jr.

Henson and Parmelee note that her mother died soon after her birth, and she was raised by her older siblings, in 1860 living in Jefferson with her brother and his wife. (Henson and Parmelee, THE CARTWRIGHTS OF SAN AUGUSTINE, p. 272). Meck died at a relatively young age, and after her father died in December 1886, she joined her two oldest children, Matthew Charles and Annie in Georgetown, Texas, where both were students at Southwestern University. Teenage son Meck accompanied her to attend high school in Georgetown. They later moved to Waco, in order for Matthew Charles to attend business college. Shortly after Matthew graduated, and the other two children completed their school term in June 1890, the entire family moved to Terrell. (ibid, p. 304). Her three married children eventually built houses next door to each other on Griffith Avenue, and Ophelia lived with her daughter Meck, and Meck's banker husband, Walter P. Allen, until her death in 1939. (ibid, p. 311).

(Research):

Census Listings:

1900 Census
Texas, Kaufman County, City of Terrell
Enumerated 21 Jun 1900
SD 6 ED 75 Sheet 34 B
657-667
Cartwright, Ophelia Head W F Aug 1845 54 Wd 3/3 Tx Va Miss
Allen, America P Daug W F Feb 1874 26 Md 6 3/3 Tx Tx Tx
Allen, Walter P S-in-law W M Jan 1870 30 m 6 Tx Ala Tenn Cashier Bank
Allen, Pauline Gdtr W F Jany 1895 5 S Tx Tx Tx
Allen, Ophelia Gdtr W F Jun 1897 2 S Tx Tx Tx
Allen, Walter P Gson W M Oct 1898 1 S Tx Tx Tx
Kennedy, Hetty Servant B F Dec 1869 30 Wd 0 Tx Tx Tx
Francis, Hally Servant B F JNun 1883 16 S Tx Tx Tx

Margaret married Americus "Meck" Peyroux Cartwright on 11 Feb 1869 in Jefferson, Marion County, Texas. Americus (son of Matthew Cartwright and Amanda "Mandy" Holman) was born on 17 Mar 1840 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; died on 11 Aug 1873 in Carthage, Panola County, Texas; was buried in Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Blanche Milton Griffith. Blanche was born on 5 Oct 1871 in Farmersville, Collin County, Texas; died on 28 Apr 1945 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; was buried in Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1886, the five female cousins, Columbus's Mary, age fourteen; Meck's Annie, fifteen; and the three Amanda's (Lon's, Anna's and Mary's) all fifteen, spent a year at Atheanaeum in Columbia, Tennessee. Jimmie Ingram and Lon visited the girls at Christmas and posed for a photograph. The importance the Cartwrights placed on good education continued as each child reached the proper age. (Henson and Parmelee, p. 297).


Obituary from FindAGrave:

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie T. Cartwright Warren, 88, of 4241 Lorraine, wife of the late State Sen. Robert Lee Warren, will be held at 2:30 Friday at her home. Dean Gerald G. Moore and the Rev. George A. Detor will officiate. Mrs. Warren died Wednesday in a Dallas hospital after a brief illness. The daughter of colonial and pioneer Texas families, she was born in San Augustine and married Senator Warren in Terrell. He served in the Legislature in 1913. She was a member of the First Families of Virginia, the Dallas Woman's Club and the Dallas Garden Club. She was a communicant of St. Matthews Cathedral for 40 years. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Summerfield G. Roberts of Dallas and a brother, Matthew G. Cartwright of Terrell. Entombment will be in Hillcrest Mausoleum. Pallbearers will be Reagan Waskom Jr., Matthew C. Roberts III, Griffith Moore II, James C. Williams, Ronald Rutherford, Gill Clements, James I. Cartwright, Bourke Cartwright, Matthew C. Roberts Jr., W.P. Allen Jr., Matthew Allen, Jerome Cartwright Jr., Wallis Warren and Jerry H. Roberts. Dallas Morning News, October 23, 1959


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JXHV-JZ6
Name: Annie T Cartwright Warren
Death Date: 21 Oct 1959
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 87 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 28 Nov 1871
Birthplace: San Augustine, Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Americus P Cartwright
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Ophelia Smith
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Highland Park, Dallas, Texas
Cemetery: Hillcrest Mausoleum
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2115989
Digital Film Number: 4165962
Image Number: 340
Reference Number: item 1 cn 54826
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

Family/Spouse: Robert Lee Warren. Robert was born on 29 Sep 1865 in Harrison County, Texas; died on 24 Mar 1952 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; was buried in Sparkman Hilcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was born five months after her fathers death, and was named in honor of him. Like other children born after the death of a father, many people believed America had extraordinary powers for healing others. (Henson and Parmelee, p. 288).

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDDJ-5HP
Name: America Cartwright Allen
Death Date: 04 Apr 1959
Death Place: Terrell, Kaufman, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 85 years
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 16 Feb 1874
Birthplace: San Augustine, Texas
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Americus Peyroux Cartwright
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: Ophelia Smith
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Housewife
Place of Residence: Terrell, Kaufman, Texas
Cemetery: Oakland Memorial Park
Burial Place: Terrell, Texas
Burial Date: 06 Apr 1959
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2115910
Digital Film Number: 4165956
Image Number: 1978
Reference Number: v X cn 22121
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976

America married Walter Payne Allen, Sr. about 1894 in Texas. Walter was born on 10 Jan 1870 in Mount Enterprise, Rusk County, Texas; died on 3 Dec 1943 in Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas; was buried in Oakland Memorial Park Cemetery, Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Biography from FindAGrave

Annie Lee Warren Roberts, philanthropist and historical preservationist, was born in Terrell, Texas, in 1895, the only child of Annie (Cartwright) and state Senator Robert Lee Warren. Following graduation from high school in Terrell, Annie Lee attended Gunston Hall Women's College in Washington, D.C., and Monticello College in Geoffrey, Illinois. On May 15, 1920, she married Terrell native Summerfield G. Roberts, a fifth-generation Texan who was just beginning a business career in Dallas. As the couple prospered financially through his banking, oil, and real estate dealings, they jointly pursued interests that improved the cultural, social, and literary life of Dallas and Texas. Mrs. Roberts worked diligently to improve the plight of homeless pets and captive wildlife as well as to protect the animals in the wild. In 1984 she was a recipient of the Founders medal for extraordinary service to animals. In 1988, in association with the Animal Protection Institute and United Animal Nations-USA, she founded the Annie Lee Roberts Emergency Animal Rescue Service fund. She received the award for excellence for extraordinary achievement in animal rescue in 1988 and was the recipient of the animal philanthropist of the year award from the Animal Protection Institute in 1989. Her civic memberships included Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the Dallas Garden Club. Preserving Texas history was an ardent interest she shared with her husband; in 1948 they established, through the Sons of the Republic of Texas, the Summerfield G. Roberts Award for the best work of history on early Texas. For her role in the creation of this monetary award, Mrs. Roberts subsequently was elected an honorary member of the Sons of the Republic of Texas. She and her husband also were responsible for numerous artistic and literary gifts to the Hall of State in Dallas and the State Library and Archives Building in Austin. Later in her life, following the death of her husband in 1970, she established the Summerlee Foundation to provide funding for the protection of animals and the study and preservation of Texas history. In its efforts to preserve the state's history, the foundation underwrote the work of the Summerlee Commission, which in 1991 completed a comprehensive study of the status of teaching, studying and preserving Texas history. Annie Lee Warren Roberts died at her Dallas home on April 22, 1990, at the age of ninety-four, and was buried in Hillcrest Mausoleum in Dallas. She and her husband had no children. [bio info from tshaonline.org]

Family/Spouse: Summerfield Griffith Roberts. Summerfield (son of Matthew Cartwright Roberts and Emily Griffith) was born on 17 Oct 1891 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; died on 3 Jan 1970 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; was buried in Sparkman Hilcrest Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JFNF-P29
Name: Margaret Ophelia Mccord
Death Date: 10 Nov 1967
Death Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Gender: Female
Race:
Death Age: 70 years
Estimated Birth Date: 1897
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Marital Status:
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Walter Payne Allen
Father's Birthplace:
Mother's Name: America Peyroux Cartwright
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation:
Place of Residence:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2138743
Digital Film Number: 4027132
Image Number: 2860
Reference Number: cn 71261
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976